We develop a scalable framework for measuring information disorder without adjudicating truth claims and find that Facebook’s algorithms systematically ampli...
As AI systems become more powerful and accessible, we’re witnessing a surge in unintended, fringe uses that current regulatory frameworks can’t keep up with....
Our upcoming book Collaborative Use of Wikibase for Interdisciplinary Mixed-Methods Research outlines how research teams can utilise Wikibase to manage, inte...
This study presents an innovative approach to quantifying perceptions of violence by leveraging geolocated YouTube comments. By developing a granular, spatia...
This study explores the Internet’s role in mobilizing outside traditional social capital networks, focusing on Italy’s Five Star Movement (M5S) and its use o...
The online ecosystems of political movements are not confined to single platforms; rather, they span multiple platforms, each offering unique affordances and...
For Meta, politics is bad for business. And for two reasons. First, politically charged content and the toxicity surrounding it do not create an attractive s...
Focus on personal networks, social capital, and the Internet’s role in mobilising Italy’s Five Star Movement (M5S).
We investigate whether this is the case using responses to an online survey (n = 698) administered to participants at face-to-face meetings organised to supp...
In this paper, I introduce a robust framework for quantifying ‘information disorder’ within diverse information spaces, detailing its measurement methodology...
In October 2023, I was one of the recipients of the Teaching Innovation Awards of the the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of the University of Sydney...
The online ecosystems of political movements are not confined to single platforms; rather, they span multiple platforms, each offering unique affordances and...
Focus on personal networks, social capital, and the Internet’s role in mobilising Italy’s Five Star Movement (M5S).
We investigate whether this is the case using responses to an online survey (n = 698) administered to participants at face-to-face meetings organised to supp...
In this paper, I introduce a robust framework for quantifying ‘information disorder’ within diverse information spaces, detailing its measurement methodology...
Australia must move beyond fact‑checking alone and focus on building a healthier, more resilient information ecosystem that supports trust, quality informati...
Francesco Bailo. The Canberra Times. 22 December 2025.
In October 2023, I was one of the recipients of the Teaching Innovation Awards of the the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of the University of Sydney...
As AI systems become more powerful and accessible, we’re witnessing a surge in unintended, fringe uses that current regulatory frameworks can’t keep up with....
For Meta, politics is bad for business. And for two reasons. First, politically charged content and the toxicity surrounding it do not create an attractive s...
We develop a scalable framework for measuring information disorder without adjudicating truth claims and find that Facebook’s algorithms systematically ampli...
Our upcoming book Collaborative Use of Wikibase for Interdisciplinary Mixed-Methods Research outlines how research teams can utilise Wikibase to manage, inte...
This study presents an innovative approach to quantifying perceptions of violence by leveraging geolocated YouTube comments. By developing a granular, spatia...
This study explores the Internet’s role in mobilizing outside traditional social capital networks, focusing on Italy’s Five Star Movement (M5S) and its use o...
The online ecosystems of political movements are not confined to single platforms; rather, they span multiple platforms, each offering unique affordances and...
Focus on personal networks, social capital, and the Internet’s role in mobilising Italy’s Five Star Movement (M5S).
We investigate whether this is the case using responses to an online survey (n = 698) administered to participants at face-to-face meetings organised to supp...
In this paper, I introduce a robust framework for quantifying ‘information disorder’ within diverse information spaces, detailing its measurement methodology...
In October 2023, I was one of the recipients of the Teaching Innovation Awards of the the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of the University of Sydney...
The Kosovo Liberation Army (Albanian acronym UÇK) supposedly run, during the conflict of 1999, torture camps in northern Albania. According to an investigati...
This book reflects on the political capacity of citizen users to impact politics, explaining the danger in assuming that mass online participation has uncond...
Publisher version Social media are Internet-based technologies and services that allow people to communicate synchronously or asynchronously with one or...
The Economist has published an article on malnutrition in Guatemala. Hunger is not new in the country, with half of the children population not eating enough...
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has published the Annual Report 2008 on Guatemala. And hardly could have been worse. Last year murder r...
The National Security Archive has just declassified eleven documents on the extra judicial arrests conducted 25 years ago by the government of Guatemala. It ...
The Inter-American Development Bank publishes today on its web-site previsions for remittance flows in 2009 to Latin America: they will go down for the first...
Guatemalan newspaper La Hora affirms that, for the first time, the government will hand to the ministerio público (attorney general) the military archives r...
According to Banco de Guatemala, for the first time since 1999, in January 2009 remittances from abroad decreased by 7.75% compared to the same month in 2008...
In this post, I explain how to use an online file storing and sharing service like AARNet’s CloudStor (but any WebDAV service will do) to access and update y...
Saint Michael's Abbey, in the Susa Valley, Piedmont. Source: Wikipedia
La geografia socio-politica delle grandi città italiane del centro-nord è radicalmente cambiata negli ultimi 25 anni. Se osserviamo la distribuzione dei voti...
The abundance of economic data and the scarcity of social data with a comparable level of granularity is a problem for the quantitative analysis of social ph...
This simulation of the results for the 2018 general election is based on the results from the last two national elections (the Italian parliament election in...
The abundance of economic data and the scarcity of social data with a comparable level of granularity is a problem for the quantitative analysis of social ph...
The 2016 Italian referendum torpedoed the constitutional reform presented by the government presided by Matteo Renzi (41). According to the final count, whic...
Leggo e rispondo al post di Massimo Mantellini (Il M5S, il wifi e il principio di precauzione) in cui si evidenzia con preoccupazione come il Movimento abbia...
The Five Star Movement (M5S) obtained two major victories in the second round of municipal elections on 19 June 2016 in Rome and Turin. Rome attracted the mo...
To talk about identity and soul of the Five Star Movement (M5S) is not only politically contentious but also practically challenging because of the different...
This study reveals how multi-platform environments generate fragmented patterns of internal communication and influence within political parties when they pr...
This article introduces the ‘Undersphere’—creative communities using Generative AI in ways that challenge current policy frameworks and pose emerging risks t...
This paper examines how digital media can activate political participation in areas traditionally excluded from social capital networks, focusing on Italy’s ...
The paper introduces IC-Mamba, a novel state space model that forecasts social media engagement by modeling interval-censored data with integrated temporal e...
Between 2013 and 2021, the Italian Five Star Movement’s Lex Eletti platform aimed to enhance citizens’ online participation in law-making by requiring electe...
This paper evaluates the effectiveness of Meta’s content moderation on Facebook during the COVID-19 pandemic, analyzing 18 Australian right-wing/anti-vaccina...
This paper focuses on the performance of the far-right community in the Australian Twittersphere during two information crises: the 2019–2020 Australian bush...
Qualitative research provides methodological guidelines for observing and studying communities and cultures on online social media platforms.
This article contributes to both the theoretical elaboration and empirical testing of the ‘stability–instability paradox’, the proposition that while nuclear...
Since changing its algorithm in January 2018 to boost the content of family and friends over other content (including news), Facebook has signaled that it is...
The aim of this article is to examine and quantify the relationship between regular immigration and voting for anti-immigration parties in Italy’s eight Nort...
Public protest events are now both social media and news media events.
The emergence of personalised, interactive forms of social media has led to questions about the use of these platforms for engagement in politics.
Understanding relations among online users involved in political discussions can help us understand similarities and differences with corresponding offline i...
By analyzing millions of geolocated YouTube comments from Mexico, the Violence Perception Index measures how communities discuss and perceive violence—captur...
Demographics information is usually reported in relation to precise boundaries: administrative, electoral, statistical, etc. Comparing demographics informati...
If you plan to do anything with the raster package you should definitely consider parallelize all your processes, especially if you are working with very lar...
Explicit semantic analysis (ESA) was proposed by Gabrilovich and Markovitch (2007) to compute a document position in a high-dimensional concept space. At the...
This submission proposes that platforms should prevent individual harm through content moderation while contributing to a new persona-based monitoring system...
The Centre for AI, Trust and Governance challenges the Productivity Commission’s approach to AI regulation, arguing that permissive data sharing without addr...
In light of the enormous social, economic, political, cultural and ethical challenges presented by rapid developments in artificial intelligence (AI), and pa...
At a time when our use of these technologies is increasingly redefining aspects of our personal and professional lives, Digital Rights in Australia explores ...
The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) estimates the greenness of plants covering the surface of the Earth by measuring the light reflected by the...
Increase in food prices has pushed back into poverty at least 100 million people in 2008 and, according to the United Nations Standing Committee on Nutrition...
An article published on Science this week analyzes the development of the region across the Amazon deforestation frontier. In three words: boom and bust. It ...
In 1981 poverty rate in China was 64% of the population, in 2004 the rate was 10%: it means that 500 million people stepped out of poverty (look here and her...
In this post Dani Rodrik explains why trade theories suggest that the U.S. should liberalize trade for agricultural products (especially cotton and sugar) an...
Let’s try to imagine how a platform to collect and share market price information could work in a country where 46% of the children are malnourished and 80% ...
In a report published today, Oxfam predicts that by 2015 the average number of people affected by climate-related disasters every year will increase by 54%. ...
The idea to use mobile phones (here and here) to help economic development in the most remote corners of the world is fascinating and definitely smart. For o...
Nobel-winning economist Amartya Sen argues, in an article published on The New York Review of Books, that the way out from the crisis passes through a better...
Human Rights Watch has just published a detailed report on Women’s Struggles to Obtain Health Care in United States Immigration Detention. Immigration detent...
Saying that education strengths economic growth sounds good old common sense. But proving and measuring this relation is not immediate and therefore interest...
The Inter-American Development Bank publishes today on its web-site previsions for remittance flows in 2009 to Latin America: they will go down for the first...
And it appears that the problem is not just limited to remittances. According to The Institute of International Finance, private financial flows from rich c...
What if we are becoming the very same Artificial Intelligence that we are trying to design? The doubt has has been raised by Nicholas Carr in an article publ...
Joe O’Brien. ABC News Hour. 6 May 2024.
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The Australian government has just announced its intention to ban social media for children and early teens. Social media is then added to a list of restrict...